You are forgetting the main intention and benefit of Earth Hour. It is supposed to make us *feel good*. The sacrifice of switching off our redundant lights gives us enough karma to not feel guilty the rest of the year when we splurge on fossil fuel. No other energy saving event would feel as good.

So I am all for Earth Hour, even if it wastes more energy in the process.

...why does he/she go on a tangent and link everything under the sun to his/her theory?

Now, that should be worth an Ig Nobel, no?

Most of the legal music stores online here sell hardcopy music :-(. Flipkart is the only downloadable music store that I know of. No DRM. It has somewhat decent collection. Note that majority of Indian popular music is film songs, other popular categories being devotional and classical.

Mod parent up!
OSDD seem to be more in tune with FOSS philosophy (no patents, generic, free to copy drugs) than TLS. I don't think TLS is going to release their drugs unpatented. At best we can call TLS a crowdsourcing scheme.

Main problem with crowd sourcing or any other form of sourcing is, we can't (don't want to) look far enough into the future to understand implications of what we are doing now.

So if they add a mandatory re-validation of constitution periodically (say 20 years, ala TJ) into the constitution itself, then it just might work.

If you have good relationship with your managers you may not feel like bargaining. £7k doesn't sound much assuming this is on annual salary. But those 1.5 hrs of commute you are saving can be much more beneficial. You are recovering about 8% of your waking life which could be spent in better way.

In the long run you know this new job is more beneficial for you. So start talking to your managers, not for bargaining but to explain your scenario. Tell them you do need to quit, but give them time to plan your departure so that there is no feeling of betrayal. If given some time, they can recruit someone capable enough to take it over from you. If the other company really wants you they will relax their joining date.

But before you talk, you should make up your mind on what you want. All the best.

The way EVMs reduce rigging is not by any superior technology. It is based on simple accessible technology and elaborate procedures to ensure that poll rigging is minimized to the maximum extent possible. Check this very detailed FAQ by Election Commission of India, specifically Q24 and Q28.

http://www.indian-elections.com/electionfaqs/electronic-voting-machines.html

To keep my daughter pounding on the keyboard, I gave a keyboard of her own. Just a plain keyboard with cable dangling - not attached to anything. These things cost next to nothing and are pretty sturdy. That worked until she realized the relation between keyboard and monitor :0). Still it kept her busy until she was about 2 yrs old.

Now she is 3, and I just let her on my home desktop (Linux Mint with XFCE) with her own restricted user id. Somebody has to log her in, but once logged in she has ready access to launchers for TuxPaint, etc.